This Uchiha Itachi is very lonely

"Itachi, it's time to get up and prepare for your father's guidance."

When the sun shone into the room through the window and fell on Itachi's face, he kept his eyes tightly closed.

For the first time since he can remember, he got up late.

Since childhood, Fugaku's education for Itachi has always been based on ninja standards.

Things like being late or late never happen to him.

But this time, Itachi was so far behind the scheduled time to get up that Artoria next to him began to urge him to get up.

On the bed, Itachi, who was lying quietly as if he was sleeping soundly, heard the sound and quickly opened his eyes.

In fact, he slept very lightly and his face was full of exhaustion.

Compared to the usual four hours of sleep, Itachi only slept for just over an hour last night.

The mental battle before going to bed made it impossible for him to calm down and sleep, so he lay in bed for a long time.

The first mental battle only lasted two hours.

However, although two hours was short, it was a long time for Itachi.

Because in this process, he never had an effective offensive.

From the beginning to the end, Itachi was passively defending.

Whenever she found an opportunity to counterattack with the help of ninjutsu, Artoria would predict his attack route in advance as if she could foresee the future, dodge in an unimaginable way and launch another offensive.

According to her, this is a kind of combat consciousness called "intuition".

When a person initially possesses this kind of fighting consciousness, all the skills he has learned will be more smoothly integrated into the rhythm of fighting.

There will be no sudden hesitation or pause in the battle, and the embarrassing situation where the techniques learned in the mind are too complicated and you don't know which one to use.

However, when Artoria mentioned the word "complicated", Itachi suddenly realized that the range of knowledge he had been exposed to recently was too vast, so that each one had not yet reached the level of familiarity.

His summary of his first attempt at mental combat last night was that he learned too many things in a short period of time and could not make good use of them.

In the past year, I have been exposed to too many things in a short period of time.

Physical training, swordsmanship, qi and blood stimulation, ninjutsu, magic power, property changes, magic, shape changes...

Picking out any one of these would take months or even years for others to study.

Even if one's talents are very good, there is still no way to master them, become proficient in them, and integrate them into one's own combat rhythm in just one year.

Therefore, these "complicated" knowledge only increase my burden.

In response to the enemy's offensive, I would often pause because I was thinking about how to fight.

When facing Hui and others as opponents, this flaw has not been reflected yet.

Because of the actual gap between myself and them, I was able to ignore this shortcoming.

As for his father and Uchiha Aomen, they had a completely testing attitude toward themselves and had no intention of actually fighting.

But during the mental battle with Artoria, Itachi suddenly realized that his performance in the battle was almost "full of mistakes."

Dumb, he summed up the night, and could only use one word to describe himself.

During the battle, I made several selective mistakes.

For example, when he needed to use ninjutsu to harass and delay time, he chose to use taijutsu to compete with Artoria, resulting in a direct defeat;

For another example, when I wanted to imitate the attrition warfare, clone confusion warfare, etc. tactics that Fai and others used in battle, Artoria saw through them almost immediately.

As for why?

Arturia also watched the sparring process between herself and Hui, and she knew very well what she was capable of.

I don't have time to fully comprehend the knowledge in it, how to throw such hidden weapons into siege, use shadow clones to set up mazes to defeat and test the enemy, intentionally expose flaws... and so on, and transform the knowledge into my own, and choose to copy these tactics, there is no sense at all.

effect.

As for this, I should have already understood this during the battle with Uchiha Aomen.

At that time, he easily saw through his own tactics and found his true identity among the many shadow clones. It was obvious that this copying was flawed.

But he actually didn't think of a way to make up for it, and instead used it again in a replica way!

So silly!

Artoria doesn't even need to use high-level swordsmanship with magical power. She just relies on stabbing, picking, chopping, slashing...this series of basic swordsmanship, plus the power and speed brought by her own physical strength.

The whole audience crushed me!

I have always been a little too confident!

No matter what happens, as long as you are careful enough, you can easily "reproduce" it by relying on your talent.

And this talent of easily copying other people's movements and abilities makes me forget to understand it!

When fighting against someone weaker than him, Itachi can easily rely on his superior strength, speed, and skill.

When it came to actually fighting an opponent stronger than himself, Itachi quickly realized that he had too many flaws.

Both in terms of ability and character.

"Do you think I'm a little too... arrogant?"

Itachi got up and washed himself, looked at himself in the mirror, and couldn't help but ask Artoria.

In the past, in order to hide his true thoughts, he had to hold it back and got used to it.

But now that he has such a person to communicate with and talk to each other, he is not so willing to hold it back.

"Arrogant?"

Artoria looked a little confused.

“About biting off more than you can chew.”

Itachi explained distressedly, "I'm wondering if I've learned too much knowledge too quickly recently."

"Just like last night, facing an opponent like you, I have no way to turn what I have learned into an advantage. Instead, I turned the tedious knowledge into a burden."

"Before this, I didn't even realize this. Instead, I was confident that I was strong enough."

"Instead of constantly learning all kinds of new abilities and mastering all kinds of powerful techniques and techniques, I should probably focus more on studying the techniques I am familiar with."

"What is powerful is not the ability itself, but the person who uses it."

Artoria: "..."

Arrogant?

She didn't know how to explain Itachi's evaluation of herself.

She even felt that Itachi was showing off his talent.

However, she certainly agreed with this statement, and was also surprised at the same time.

Itachi had given Artoria too many surprises at his current age.

"You are not arrogant, you are just a little special, which makes you different."

Artoria thought for a moment, "I agree with what you said, that what is powerful is not the ability itself, but the person who uses the ability."

"But... the word "research" needs to be supported by a relatively complete amount of knowledge."

"Just like magic and chakra, the formation of these two energies is very similar. When the amount of knowledge you accumulate reaches a certain stage, there are actually many skills in common regarding combat, but the term is changed.

, or a way of manifestation.”

"The path formed by all fighting skills ultimately leads to the result of "victory"."

"So, what you need now is to continue to learn various things and fill your knowledge base. When the knowledge you master reaches a certain stage, you try to "drill in" again, and you will find that you have a complete set of skills.

And after being educated on the basic knowledge structure, the process of studying will be much easier.”

This is like a change in nature.

When a person learns to refine chakra and then directly practices to change its nature, there is no doubt that he will find a path out of thin air.

But if you have chakra, you first try to learn escape techniques. In the process of using basic escape techniques, you can inadvertently understand the changes in properties and the so-called attributes. Unknowingly, you have mastered one of the three stages of property changes.

Or both.

Then it will be easier when you really try to start the practice of changing nature.

At least, the road in front of you has illusory steps instead of nothing.